what I forgot to know was that in KDE one should shift keyboard between a dual kbd set up using alt+ctrl+k to get åäö while if I shift it gives ['; instead of åäö and to be € I need to do something too but I've already forgot how to.

Tooth, sorry, it was very easy when my poor bran really got it. So hopefully it works now to save. I test it and write result here within a ten minutes.

Back after shut down. Saving worked. It remember åäö now but instead failed to do a clean shut down so I must have touched something. BSB? It says something about not finding a sound thing. I try again.

but your new initrd has initrd.gz the .gz means gnom zip maybe? Should the above have a .gz too? In case that has something to do with the new failure to shut down hanging? Not likely, could be that something is different with the 59SPinitrd.gz about the alsa shutdown. Could that also relate to the incredibly low sound output. Some 20 to 30 db under what other distros have.

Apart from incredibly low volume of sound and this new failure to shut down I am very very happy to e able to save bookmarks and such. Thanks indeed.

gzip (GNU zip)the first initrd you had was not compressed.the initrd has nothing to do with shutdown.the startup/shutdown scripts are located in /etc/rc.d/if you look close you will see rc.K rc.S rc.M and rc.local are symlinks(shortcuts) to rc.K.live rc.S.live rc.M.live and rc.local.liveI suggest you remove those symlinks and make new ones that point to rc.K.real and so on.first use the code below to remove them

Thanks indeed for caring about such a capricous tester of Vector 5.9 SOHO Preview Live CD in frugal install.

I will try what you suggested tomorrow or day after. Have visits tomorrow so much to do preparing for guests.

My last crash at shutdown seems to have done something to the save file so at boot up it had no swedish keyboard nor any bookmarks so hopefully what you suggest should make the shutdown to not hang and needing hard reboot?

So the .gz is supposed to be extracted or decompressed before being used? Could you confirm that?

when I have set up swedish should it not be suffice to do umount /mnt/hda1 hit return and then mount /mnt/hda1 to mount again and that would make åäö and other such € to be chosable next time if it remembers I must have changed something cause no it lost ability to remember. I try reboot again. It halted powered down cleanly though but what could have happen that made me loose the save changes ability. That one worked when the shut down hanged.

Are that related in any way? The symlinking

Nope, sorry something has changed. I've gotten back the ability to shut down but lost the ability to save and it could be the symlinking?

It had the sohoboot when it worked too so that is not the reason it fails now.

The only thing that look different at boot is the APM failed message in red. But that one was like that when I could save too. But I wish one could do something about it too while we are at it. In case it is easy.